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2019 Horticulture Industry Awards nominations open

HortNZ is calling for nominations for its 2019 Awards to be presented at the Horticulture Conference Gala Dinner. HortNZ will present up to one award in each of the following ...

New Zealand's Food Story; The Pukekohe Hub

Long report                    Short report Quick stats on horticulture in New Zealand: Value of horticulture (excludes wine): $5.68 billion: $3.44 billion total exports; $2...

What you need to know about Regional Fuel Tax

From 1 July 2018, regional fuel tax (RFT) of 10 cents/litre plus GST will be applied to petrol, diesel and their bio-variants, delivered to the Auckland region. This will affe...

2018 HortNZ AGM Papers

Click here for the HortNZ Board AGM Papers 2018   Click here for the HortNZ Financials Summary 2018   Click here for the HortNZ Core Budget 2018

HortNZ director elections 2018

The Horticulture New Zealand constitution provides for a term of three years for elected directors with one third of directors retiring by rotation each year. This year two gr...

CoOL Select Committee HortNZ Submission

Country of Origin of Food Bill General Submission

A general submission has been prepared for you to support the Consumers’ Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill.   It is available here.   You can save this pdf form o...

Join the Bug Man's hunt for the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

The Ministry for Primary Industries have enlisted Ruud Kleinpaste, the 'Bug Man', to raise awareness about the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.   Watch the video below to see how t...

Celebrating 100 years of representing growers

The first meeting of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation, Wellington 1916   It has been 100 years since the formation of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation, and 30 ...

The Horticulture Industry Awards 2016

Bledisloe Cup Murray McPhail Tonight we honour a 40 year commitment to horticulture in New Zealand. This year’s winner of the Bledisloe Cup is Murray McPhail. Never one to ta...